Southeast Asia category: 1948 books
Two Essays
A trilingual edition in English, German and Indonesian
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
German title: Zwei Essays
Indonesian title: Dua Esai
Few Indonesian essayists can compete with Nirwan Arsuka in his ability to pull together different strands of thought, periods of history, and fields of knowledge in a cohesive unit that is easy to read. Nirwan exercises a remarkable dexterous hand when it comes to bringing characters from the distant past back to life.
The New Way
Protestantism and the Hmong in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
In the mid-1980s, a radio program with a compelling spiritual message was accidentally received by listeners in Vietnam’s remote northern highlands. The Protestant evangelical communication had been created in the Hmong language by the Far East Broadcasting Company specifically for war refugees...
by 譚天
Language: Chinese
Release Date: June 12, 2019
Language: Chinese
Release Date: June 12, 2019
「吳哥窟是泰國的！」
2003年，一位泰國女藝人如此爭議性地宣稱。
對泰國人而言，他們的土地遭到竊取，視之為國殤；然而真相究竟如何？
到底泰國是未遭殖民的獨立英雄，還是失土受辱的犧牲者？
看國家機器如何張牙舞爪地控制人民
看當權者如何操縱歷史記憶以動員民眾支持
一齣經過精心策畫的泰國近代史大戲，正在現實世界上演
當歷史成為操控民心的工具、軍事擴張的理由、種族沙文主義及宗教迫害的藉口……
夏恩‧史崔特（Shane...
by Greg Lopez, Bridget Welsh, John Funston
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Prominent scholars across the political divide and academic disciplines analyze how the dominant political parties in Malaysia and Singapore, United Malays National Organisation (UMNO) and the People’s Action Party (PAP), have stayed in power. With a focus on developments in the last decade and...
The Ethno-Narcotic Politics of the Shan People
Fighting with Drugs, Fighting for the Nation on the Thai–Burmese Border
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
This book proposes the alternative explanation on the pattern of ethnic conflict, especially the on-going civil war in Myanmar. Previously, most scholars accepted that narcotics play the crucial role in conflict as the resource of revenues. However, this book dramatically changes what we have ever...
Humanizing the Sacred
Sisters in Islam and the Struggle for Gender Justice in Malaysia
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2016
In recent years, global attention has focused on how women in communities of Muslims are revitalizing Islam by linking interpretation of religious ideas to the protection of rights and freedoms. Humanizing the Sacred demonstrates how Sunni women activists in Malaysia are fracturing institutionalized...
Pigs and Persons in the Philippines
Human-Animal Entanglements in Ifugao Rituals
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The Ifugao of Northern Luzon, the Philippines, are famous for their extensive system of irrigated rice terraces, and previous anthropological accounts of the Ifugao have stressed their immense importance for social life. This book attempts to "go against the grain" and approach Ifugao society...
Gobernar colonias, administrar almas
Poder colonial y órdenes religiosas en los imperios ibéricos (1808-1930)
Language: Spanish
Release Date: October 18, 2018
El presente libro versa sobre el papel de la Iglesia católica y sus misiones en los Imperios ibéricos del siglo xix y el primer tercio del siglo xx. En concreto, aborda las relaciones entre el poder civil y el eclesiástico en contextos coloniales en un período de intensa modernización de las...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2018
This volume brings together an interdisciplinary team of established and emerging scholars from the disciplines of history, political science and communication studies, to provide a historical reappraisal of Cambodia’s relationships with the West. Contributors to the volume examine moments of historical...
by John Falconer, Elizabeth Moore
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2012
With over 500 full-color photographs and expert insights provided by leading archaeological authorities, Burmese Design & Architecture is a must-have for serious connoisseurs of architecture, design or Burma itself.
It is the first book to showcase the amazing diversity of architecture,...
The Pirates of Malabar
And An Englishwoman in India Two Hundred Years Ago
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
Colonel John Biddulph (25 July 1840 – 24 December 1921) was a British soldier, author and naturalist who served in the government of British India.
He was educated at Westminster School, and at the age of 18 joined the 19th Lancers and proceeded to India where he served in Awadh during...
by Deborah Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2018
From the author of 'The Devil's Wire' and 'Left for Dead' comes a memoir about her life.
It's 1987. Madonna is top of the charts. 'The Lost Boys' opens in cinemas. Fingerless gloves are in. It's also the year that I ran away from home and was sent to live with my expat father and Chinese stepmother...
Truth on Trial in Thailand
Defamation, Treason, and Lèse-Majesté
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2010
Since 2005, Thailand has been in crisis, with unprecedented political instability and the worst political violence seen in the country in decades. In the aftermath of a military coup in 2006, Thailand’s press freedom ranking plunged, while arrests for lèse-majesté have skyrocketed to levels unknown...
Unfortunate Cambodia
Collection of memories from war torn Cambodia
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2019
Ignoring pain & suffering of one Nation from far South Eastern corner of the World that all the rich countries
and all the Super Powers love to settle their differences on that land. Cover up and forgotten by most of our World.